Speech input and output

Possibilities for acoustical dialogs with electronic data processing equipment were investigated. Speech recognition is posed as recognizing word groups. An economical, multistage classifier for word string segmentation is presented and its reliability in dealing with continuous speech (problems of temporal normalization and context) is discussed. Speech synthesis is considered in terms of German linguistics and phonetics. Preprocessing algorithms for total synthesis of written texts were developed. A macrolanguage, MUSTER, is used to implement this processing in an acoustic data information system (ADES).